To:HIS MOTHER

Published:First published in 1929 in the journalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 4.

      Sent from Shushenskoye to Podolsk.

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      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

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August 2, 1898

Afew days ago I received your letter of July 15, Mother
dearest.

Ihope Mitya will have been released by the time you
receive this. His release has been promised so many times
that he will probably be free by autumn. The investigation
of his case is dragging on much too long.

Ithink Manyasha’s plan to go to Brussels is a good one.
She can probably study there better than in Switzerland.
She will probably soon be able to cope with the French
language. They say that the climate there is good. Nadya
has an
acquaintance[1]who lived in Belgium for about five
years and is now preparing to go back there from Russia
(to Liége). He is married to one of Nadya’s close
friends.[2]Nadya is writing to her today asking her to write to
Manyasha (in Podolsk) and give her all the information and
addresses that might be useful to her.

Ifthe janitor at your old flat says that the postman brought
“a yellow book” in May, it must have been theVoprosy
Filosofiithat I sent. So we may hope that the book has not
been lost and that we can still get it back. I will wait
another week to see what Mark can find out about it at
work, and then report the loss.

Iam very glad Anyuta intends to inform everyone not
to send anything to the address of
S.M.[5]That foolishperson recently received something for me and wants to make
a whole “affair” of it.... Of course I pay no attention to these
foolish antics (probably caused by our quarrel with the
Minusinsk crowd) and I shall receive the books that were
sent to her. But it would be pleasanter to manage
without her. If there are still people who have not been
informed, let Anyuta write to them. A few days ago I
received some of the books (mostly on philosophy) that
Anyuta bought for me. The books for me that have now
been received are still in Minusinsk; they include the
continuation of the philosophical series.

Amongthe books the following got in by accident—
I think they are Anyuta’s—Baedeker,Suisse, andJahrbuch
des Unterrichtswesens in der Schweiz, 1892, 1893 and 1894
(three volumes); Anna should write and tell me what to do
with them. If I am to return them to her, should it be now
or in the autumn (when we intend sending a box of books by
rail).

[ApollinariyaAlexandrovna
Yakubova][3]is being sent
to the village of Kazachinskoye, Yeniseisk District (I
believe I wrote this before); it is on the post road a hundred
or more versts upstream from Yeniseisk. The political
exiles there are Lingling, Rostkovsky and others. She has
not yet written to us from there.

TheTes people expect to get transferred in the middle
of August.

Adetailed letter has arrived from the doctor in
Verkholensk in which he describes the death of N.Y. Fedoseyev,
and returns a letter from Anna to N.Y. which arrived after
his death (he does not know whose letter it is) and asks
what to do with the 25 rubles. (They are collecting money
there for a memorial.) They (the comrades in Verkholensk)
have also undertaken to pay N.Y.’s debts (about 80
rubles).

Thedoctor writes that the filthy accusations made
against him by some scoundrel (also a political exile)
concerning money affairs had a very adverse effect on N.Y., and
he decided not to takeanymoney from anybody (and hestuck to his decisions), so that he suffered extreme hardship,
could not work, and, as the doctor put it, “when he
realised he could not work he decided that he would not live”....
After his death a telegram arrived in Verkholensk to the
effect that Maria
Germanovna[4]had been given permission
to join him....

Kissesfor you and regards to all. I wish Mark a pleasant
journey and a good holiday.

Yours,V. U.

Y.V. and Nadya send regards.

[1]Forpurposes of secrecy Lenin’s relatives removed names from
his letter. The “acquaintance ” was N. L. Meshcheryakov and the
“friend”, his wife, A. I. Meshcheryakova (Chechurina).—Ed.

[2][DUPLICATE"*"] For purposes of secrecy Lenin’s relatives removed names from
his letter. The “acquaintance ” was N. L. Meshcheryakov and the
“friend”, his wife, A. I. Meshcheryakova (Chechurina).—Ed.

[3]Forpurposes of secrecy Lenin’s relatives removed this name
from the letter.—Ed.

[4]M.G. Hopfenhaus.—Ed.

[5]Thisrefers to S. M. Friedmann whose address was used by exiles
to receive literature and money.  The “trouble” Lenin mentions
was caused by the flight of S.  G. Raichin   (see Letter No. 49),
who received money from abroad at Friedmann’s address without
her permission. In view of this the Minusinsk colony of exiles
requested  other exiles not to use Friedmann’s address so as to
avoid drawing the attention of the police to her.